The Leaving Party

Every year on the same day, on the anniversary, I receive a single black rose. Thirteen years of dark petals, jagged thorns, dredging up memories I’ve tried to forget …I’ve packed up my life. All my belongings are carefully sealed in labelled boxes, my suitcases ready for my big move. I’m just days away from a new life abroad with my boyfriend, Ben. No one knows the real reason I’m desperate to leave.My best friend, Lena, is throwing me a leaving party. A celebration, to say goodbye. Champagne to toast my farewell. Speeches, full of fond memories. No one knows what I’m running from.Then another black rose appears, dragging up 13 years of buried memories. My passport goes missing. The very people I am trying to escape from turn up at our house. Someone knows what I did.This party was meant to be the first night of the rest of my life – but now I don’t know if I’ll see tomorrow. Someone knows my secret. They’re in my home, they're at my party and they’re making me pay for it.

‘A chilling read which had me hooked from the first page …The author did a cracking job of leading me down dead ends and throwing red herrings right at me.’ -- Stardust Reviews

Lesley spends her days writing in coffee shops in Kings Cross where she lives and also works as a librarian in a multicultural school. She loves the atmosphere and eclectic mix of people in the area. She has lived and worked in Paris and speaks four languages.She attended the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course in 2015/6, and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish fiction prize.Lesley discovered Patricia Highsmith as a teenager and has since been hooked on psychological thrillers. She is particularly interested in the psychology of female relationships.The Orchid Girls is her first psychological thriller. Lucy Price-Lewis has narrated over 40 fiction and non-fiction audiobooks. In addition to her voice acting skills, Lucy is also the director of Chatterbox Audio. Having produced hundreds of audiobooks for her own company, Lucy brings this knowledge to get the best results out of her own work. Lucy is the voice of K.L. Slater's renowned crime novels, such as The Silent Ones, Missing Molly, Single and Liar, and most recently, The Marriage. Charlie Sanderson is a British actor and voice artist, who has done extensive work on Broadway, in the West End and touring around the globe. To date she has narrated more than 250 audiobooks, including titles by bestsellers such as Jacqueline Wilson and Philippa Gregory, as well as voicing numerous corporate and commercial campaigns. Katy Sobey trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has since worked in theatre, television, radio and audio. Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Woodlanders and King John. On television Katy featured in BBC 1’s The Indian Doctor. For BBC Radio 4, she has appeared in several radio plays and various episodes of Poetry Please. Katy has also recorded numerous audiobooks, including the Isadora Moon series and various novels by Fiona McIntosh and Sheila Newberry.

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